Fan Letter

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‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

BY Gabriella Pounds |

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

BY Cody Delistraty |

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

BY Matthew McLean |

‘To me, it offers a particular emotional experience – something like joyful grief’

BY Laura McLean-Ferris |

‘If criticality indicates a desire for change, then surely the critic is actually an optimist’

BY Jörg Heiser |

‘I started to read Mayröcker’s work obsessively. She became one of the few writers whose every written word I have read’

BY Hans Ulrich Obrist |

‘Hollis’s great skill is to reconcile frugality with generosity’

BY Emily King |

‘I keep returning to the work – even as it changes’ 

BY Dawn Adès |

‘The bold, deep, shoulder-shaking beats of the new-jack sound era’

BY Ismail Einashe |

‘This poetic work of propaganda helped to bring about a queer communist comradeship that spanned more than 6,000 kilometres’

BY Juliet Jacques |

‘In everything she does, Adele’s honesty is at the core of her vision’

BY Allison Katz |

‘By its closing scenes, I felt compelled to stand up and clap’

BY Yung Ma |

‘I spend my life as a writer trying (failing) to approximate Oswald’s verbal economy of means’

BY Amy Sherlock |

‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’

BY Alice Rawsthorn |

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant's collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell pays homage to the pop group 

BY Michael Bracewell |

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups 

BY Michael Bracewell |

Found first in the pages of NME, an homage to the critic who brought an antic traduction of high French theory to the study of contemporary pop

BY Brian Dillon |

Before ‘fake news’ and the turn against Facebook, painter David Salle remembers a book that predicted how the media sphere would shatter

BY David Salle |

In praise of the inventive brilliance of the late Guy Davenport 

BY Pablo Larios |